VAST PROPAGANDA

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 136, 5 December 1935, Page 29

VAST PROPAGANDA

FOR BRITISH ELECTIONS

The National Government propaganda department has been dispatching huge quantities' of electioneering ammunition to the candidates in the field, said the "Daily Telegraph" recently. Already 36 separate leaflets have been issued, the total printing of which reaches 7,000,000. Many of the leaflets set out, in attractive and concise form, the achievements of the Government during its four years of office. Others are devoted to an exposure of the Socialist policy. Headings, indicating the contents, include:— Britain still forging ahead: Record-breaking: 1,000,000 more at work; 1,000,000 new houses built. The poor law lie. Better times for farming. Milk at school for 3,000,000 children. Britain on top of the world. Public Lie No. 1: "That the Government stood in the way of international agreement1 to stop air bombing." Britain's need: Peace, Progress, Security. Guard your savings. A word to the coal miner. What the League means to you. The housewife's budget. There is also a leaflet lor the consumption.of Liberal voters, by Sir John Simon, entitled "A Word to Liberals." Another shov» most effectively, by figures, how wriemployment rose in a number of big towns under the Socialist Government, and declined while the National Government was in office. Women particularly will read with interest, "The Housewife's Budget," which states that "official returns collected from different parts of the country show that almost everything the housewife buys for her larder is cheaper today than it was in 1930, when the Socialist Government was in office." There follow a list of examples.

In 1934 more than half of the tea exported in the world was drunk in the United Kingdom. Henry Watson, a miner, who has died at Hartlepool, had lived for two years with a broken spine.